Post-cyclone rains, flood threat affect lakhs in eastern India

A day after Cyclone Yaas tore through coastal Odisha and Bengal to cause havoc as far as Jharkhand, tornadoes, torrential rains, bridge collapses and swelling rivers continued......

Modi on project blitz in poll-bound Assam, Bengal

Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi will visit Assam and West Bengal, which will go to the polls in a few weeks's time, on Monday to lay foundation stones for several projects.   IMAGE:......

Bangla bandh cut short by 'wedding season'

The 12-hour Bangla bandh called by the Trinamool Congress and the Socialist Unity Centre of India on Monday, to protest the price rice, hit normal life in West Bengal. But keeping the wedding......

Singur simmers: BJP chief, Patkar detained

Social activist Medha Patkar and Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singhwere on Monday detainedalong with other topBJP leaders from West Bengal on their way to Singur, where fencing work at......

Lalu's Rail Budget speech

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav made the following speech while presenting the Railway Budget for 2004-2005 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 6, 2004)."Mr Speaker Sir,I rise to present the......